Women's Mental Health
Section committee






Section mission
This Section's mission is to:
- enhance attention to gender-sensitive aspects of psychiatric research, education, treatments, and services
- promote and support research into gender and sex differences in all fields of scientific expertise
- foster the inclusion of women in psychiatric research and gender-sensitive handling of data
- encourage research topics of special needs and interest to women over the lifespan and women in different contexts and living situations
- improve education and training about gender-specific psychiatric knowledge
- disseminate information on topics pertinent to women’s mental health
- advance the development of gender-based effective psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial treatments ad women-friendly services
- share information of different practices and legislation in different parts of Europe
- fight stigma and discrimination of women
- strengthen women’s empowerment, resilience, and positive mental health
- aspire to gender parity in the professional fields of research, practice, education and leadership roles in European psychiatry
Section objectives
- Presentation of information and activities pertinent to its mission within the EPA’s organizational bodies, meetings, and publications
- Collaboration with other EPA sections
- Collaboration with the WPA section of women’s mental health
- Networking with other organizations, with a focus on women’s issues within medicine and mental health, such as the Marcé Society and the International Association for Women’s Mental Health (IAWMH
- Organization of scientific and educational symposia, meetings, and curricula